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Childism and Archiving the Climate Movement

Childism and Archiving the Climate Movement

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Our Challenge

This challenge asks you to propose future solutions that could help historians write about child and youth contributions to the early 21st-century climate movement. Although children and youth play important roles in social change, their voices and age remain marginal in most historical research. The difficulty often lies in the limited access to sources about and created by children and youth. You will therefore engage, investigate, and propose ideas for how future historians could better capture these contributions and forms of activism.

The Team

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Sivan Balslev
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Tanu Biswas
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Timothy James Marshall
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Study format
Hybrid
Application period
2 October 2025 – 1 April 2026
Study period
7 May – 22 June 2026
Credits
5 ECTS
Hosting university
University of Stavanger
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Learning outcomes

Knowledge of critical developments in the history of children and childhood

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Knowledge of early 21st century children’s climate activism

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Familiarity with the Challenge Based Learning (CBL) method

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Knowledge of basic archival work (collecting materials, cataloging, giving keywords, etc.)

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Can apply critical knowledge to read historical scholarship and analyze primary historical sources

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Can apply the CBL method to propose an online archive of children's part in the climate movement

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Can use an online platform to disseminate knowledge to the public and/or future historians

The candidate can use an online platform to present the results and primary sources collected to the public and/or future historians.

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Understands the challenges faced by historians in including age as an analytical category

The candidate understands the challenges faced by historians of children and childhood and the importance of including age as an analytical category in historical analysis

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Can apply the CBL method to finding multidisciplinary solutions

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This challenge asks you to propose future solutions that could help historians write about child and youth contributions to the early 21st-century climate movement. 

Although children and youth play important roles in social change, their voices and age remain marginal in most historical research. The difficulty often lies in the limited access to sources about and created by children and youth.

You will therefore engage, investigate, and propose ideas for how future historians could better capture these contributions and forms of activism.

Hosting university

University of Stavanger

University of Stavanger